Apple have updated their flagship DAW Logic Pro X to version 10.3.2. The new version features some extra Drummers who play Latin, Pop and an extra player suitable for singer-songwriters. Drummer allows users to create a more natural rhythm track with auto-fills, variations in volume and general ‘realism’ added in. Extra loops have also been added to fit the styles of the new Drummers.
Elsewhere, Apple have added the ability to pitch and fine-tune individual audio regions – a long-awaited and very welcome addition. Ableton users will be very familiar with how easy it is to transpose clips, so anyone who uses both will be glad to see this feature added to Logic. Their latest instrument acquisition Alchemy has also had a re-vamp, adding an automatic time align feature for improved morphing.
New in Logic Pro X 10.3.2
New features and enhancements
- Includes three new Drummers who play percussion in the styles of Pop, Songwriter, and Latin.
- Add new Drummer loops to your song and then customize them with performance controls.
- The pitch of an audio region can now be transposed or fine-tuned.
- Alchemy includes an automatic time align feature for improved morphing.
- New additive effects in Alchemy expand the options for filtering and modulating sound.
- There is now a key command to Copy Section Between Locators (Global), which copies all content between the locators regardless of selection.
- In Flex Pitch, there is now a contextual menu item to reset all Flex Pitched notes in all currently selected regions.
- There is now a key command Remove Fades.
- There is now an Audio > General preference to reserve lowered number busses from auto assignment.
- Shift-clicking when closing in a plug-in window now closes all open plug-in windows.
Stability and reliability
- Logic Pro no longer quits unexpectedly after performing Undo after the command Copy Selected Regions to Selected Track on a marquee selection is used.
- Logic Pro no longer sometimes quits unexpectedly when:
- Using the Repeat Regions/Events command after inserting a note with the Pencil tool in the Piano Roll when Link is off and the Library is open.
- Opening a project that contains instances of Camel Audio Alchemy 1.5 and Logic Pro X Alchemy.
- Moving a marquee selected set of flex markers in the Audio Track Editor.
- Selecting a newly downloaded Drum Machine patch while the Musical Typing window and Drummer Editor are open.
- Logic Pro no longer hangs when importing audio into an independent Project Audio window when no other windows are open.
Performance
- Improves responsiveness of the graphical user interface especially on Retina or other high resolution displays when doing the following:
- Resizing windows and areas.
- Dragging and trimming regions.
- Opening and closing the Piano Roll editor.
- Zooming and scrolling in large projects, especially those that contain a large number of flex edits or tempo events.
- Stepping through tracks using the up/down arrow keys.
- Adjusting parameters of multiple selected events in the Event List when the Step Editor is also open.
- Adjusting region parameters on audio regions with Flex Pitch active while playing back no longer sometimes leads to bursts of noise.
Drummer
- Switching between Drummer characters during playback no longer sometimes causes Drummer to stop playing until playback is stopped and started again.
- The record button on Drum Machine Designer tracks no longer unexpectedly disables when changing drum kits.
- The Duplicate Track command now works for Drummer or Software Instrument tracks assigned to Drum Machine Designer or Drum Kit Designer producer kits.
- Drum Machine Designer tracks now always appear as expandable Track Stacks in the Tracks Area so that sub-tracks are immediately available for automation or other tasks.
- Option-dragging a Drummer or Software Instrument track that uses Drum Machine Designer now correctly creates a Track Stack containing all the kit pieces.
Automation
- Automation of grouped tracks now works when Project Settings > MIDI > General > Control Change 7/10 controls Volume/Pan of channel strip objects setting is active.
- Region-based automation is now retained when Take folders are unpacked to Track Alternatives.
- Automation points no longer sometimes jump to unexpected positions when edited after the Project start position has been adjusted.
- Volume automation resets as expected when a cycle returns to the beginning
- The relative automation levels are once again maintained when using the Marquee tool to select and adjust automation on multiple tracks at once.
Fades
- When the right portion of a crossfade is adjusted, the left region is no longer selected in order to avoid unintended edits to a previous crossfade.
- Fades now reliably take immediate effect when created during playback.
Mixer
- It is now possible to adjust either the pan or spread position of a Stereo Panner using a mouse or swipe gesture on a Magic Mouse, or two-finger swipe on a track pad.
- When duplicating a record-armed track, the newly created track is now armed.
- There is now audio hardware device control for stereo tracks.
- Clicking the solo button in the Track Header of a Solo-safed track no longer disables "Solo-safe."
- If there are split stereo files in the project, the Edit menu in the Project Audio window now offers options to disconnect a selected split stereo file, or to reconnect all split stereo files.
- The R buttons on armed tracks now continue to blink reliably after recording is started.
- A stereo track with a mono plug-in now continues to sound mono when the plug-in is bypassed.
- I/O Labels are now associated with their correct hardware Outputs in the New Tracks window.
- Patches saved with plug-ins that use Software Instrument tracks as side chain inputs now properly recall the side chain setting when reloaded.
- Dual Mono plug-ins on a track that has been set from stereo to mono now immediately switch to mono mode.
- The dry level for plug-ins inserted on Aux channels serving as summing busses are no longer unexpectedly set to zero when a new channel is routed to that Aux.
- Low Latency mode now works as expected on Output channels above Output 1–2 that do not have plug-ins inserted on them.
Plug-ins
- When importing EXS instruments into Ultrabeat, up/down arrows to navigate sample zones are again displayed.
- Adjustments to a bandwidth in the Channel EQ made by dragging the vertical helper lines in the interface are now reflected in the channel strip EQ thumbnail.
- The Arpeggiator now starts over as expected when it receives a new set of notes while running.
- There is now a preference to control whether the most recently used plug-ins are displayed in the plug-in list.
- The EXS24 option "extract MIDI Region from Instrument created from Audio Regions" is now consistently available.
- Changing parameter values in Sculpture’s factory default setting now activates the Compare button.
- Multiple instances of the Modulator MIDI plug-in set to output the Random waveform now each output a different waveform after the project has been closed and reopened.
- The timing of the modulation of multiple instances of the Modulator MIDI plug-in now remains reliably in sync.
- The Retrosynth plug-in settings now includes a fourth modulation slider and target.
- EXS24 now offers a Sample Select Random Offset setting for Groups
Minimum System Requirements
- 4GB of RAM
- Display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher
- OS X v10.11 or later
- Requires 64-bit Audio Units plug-ins
- Minimum 6GB of disk space. 51GB of optional content available via in-app download.
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